The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-03-27
Baseball Notes.

The Pitsburg club claims that the salary list of its
players will reach nearly $39, 600
The League and Association have twenty three con-
Aicting dates in New York, and sixteen in Philade
phia.
The first game of the New York League team will
be with the Manhattan College nne the Jaspers next
Saturday.
Experience with the new rules in practice leads one
to say that mine will play the game this season,
not the pitcher and catcher only.
The services of Weidman, pitcher, and McQueery,
frstbaseman, formerly of the Kansas Citys, have
been offered to the Louisville club but they not
accepted.
A member of the New York State Assembly has in
troduced bill in the Legislature requiring free seats
at inclosed grounds be protected from sun and
rain by awnings.
The Cincinnati managers will refund no money this
year after tickets have been purchased, and rain
checks will be issued after inning has been played
No wallpaper will be used in advertising.
The League umpires will have registers to use
for numbering strikes and called balls The register
is about the shape and size of pocket matchbox,
and is made of ivory The wheels are numbered on
the new-rue style of four strikes and five balls.
In Boston the League club win play sixty three
games and the New Englanders ffty-six, total of
one hundred and nineteen. In addition, twenty
games scheduled for the colored club, the
Resolutes. There will be but eleven open dates the
Boston grounds between April % and Sept. "a.
The Detroit Club will spend this season over
and April will be Sd, $50. The club win play in
Macon Mobile, New Orleans, Savannah. Birmingham,
Decatur Memphis Nashville. Louisville. and thence
go North, where games will be had with the Lacrosse
Minneapolis and st. Paul teams.
Aside from the salary list the largest expenditures
for the League and American Association clubs this
season will be for mileage. The League clubs will
have 1882 miles and the American 72.3S5 The
total, 100 197 miles, at average of u cents mile
will outlay of So, 767.42 for each player,
and the total mileage account for the two organiza
lions will reach $40, 2O9. GA.
Will Calender, catcher of the Indianapolis club, is
Greencastle boy. In 1884 he was first brought
into notice by his work with the Greencastle amateurs
who won the State championship. Last season he
signed with the Oswego, n. Y, Eastern League club
but returned and played in Decatur, ILL., while
and ended the with Little Rock. Ark, club
The report that he caught for the Milwaukee team il
erroneous At the time he signed with the Maroons
contracts were open for him with the Bostons and
| the st. Louis Browns. He signed for 81 400.
j. E. Doen was at Chicago and New York game
last summer the Polo grounds in the latter city.
foul ball hit him in the eye and destroyed it. He
brought suit against the Metropolitan Exhibition
| Company for $25. 900 damages. Several witnessei
testified for the plaintiff that there wire
back of the catcher to protect the and thai
| such necessary to safety, but Judge
Donohue dismissed the complaint. holding that there
| was nothing to show that the company had beer
guilty Of negligence that it compulsory upon il
| to put up network. When ticket to the
| grand stand was sold it mutual contract be
| tween the company and the purchaser that sent
| would be provided and game of ball played That
ended the contract and the spectator must take al
/ risks of accident.